VOA慢速英语:Number of International Students Attending American Colleges and Universities Continues Risi

A new report says more and more international students are attending colleges and universities in the United States. It also notes a large increase in the number of international students from China.
一份新报道称越来越多留学生到美国高校求学，而且来自中国的留学生数量大增。

These findings are from the latest edition of the Open Doors Report. The report is a joint project of the State Department and the Institute of International Education, a non-profit educational and training organization.
这些发现来自最新一期的“门户开放报道”，是由国务院和国际教育协会(IIE)联合完成的项目，IIE是一家非盈利的教育培训组织。

The report documents the record number of international students in the United States during the twenty-eleven, twenty-twelve school year. It says more than seven hundred sixty-four thousand four-hundred such students were attending American colleges and universities during that period. That represents an increase of almost six percent compared to one year earlier.
报告记录了2011和2012学年美国的留学生人数，称这时期有76.44万留学生在美学习，比前一年增加了近6%。

By comparison, the number of Americans studying overseas increased by one percent.
相比之下，在海外留学的美国学生人数只增加了1%。

The report says one hundred ninety-four thousand students at American colleges and universities were from China. That is an increase of more than twenty-three percent over the year before.
报道称，美国高校中有19.4万学生来自中国，比前一年增加了23%以上。

Peggy Blumenthal is an aide to the president of the Institute of International Education. She described the effect of the increase in Chinese students.
布鲁门托是国际教育协会总裁助理，她描述了中国学生增加的情况。

"Now they have been coming for some time. But this year was the highest level ever, and it really showed in the figures, driving the whole global, international undergraduate enrollment to be higher than the graduate students."
“中国学生涌入有些时间了，但今年达到最高点，数据显示全球的本科留学生录取人数比研究生要多。”

She says many Chinese families are able to pay for the highest-quality education for their children. The children mainly choose to study in America.
她说许多中国家庭可以为孩子为高质量的教育买单，学生们主要会选择美国留学。

"We know many of them have enough income to be able to afford to send them anywhere in the world that they want to go. And for the most part, looking around the world, Chinese students still prefer to come to the United States as their destination of choice."
“我们知道，很多中国家庭的收入足以支付得起去世界任何地方，在很大程度上，从全球看来，中国学生还是更愿意选择美国。”

Chinese students are not the only ones who want to attend American colleges and universities. After China, India sends the second largest number of students to the United States for higher education. India has about one hundred thousand students in American schools. South Korea is third with about seventy two thousand students.
中国学生不是唯一希望来美国高校求学的群体，仅次于中国，印度学生是赴美留学人数第二大国，美国高校有大约10万印度留学生，韩国第三位，有大约7.2万人。

Why do so many foreign students study in the United States? Peggy Blumenthal provides one reason.
为什么有这么多外国学生来美国呢？布鲁门托指明了一个原因。

"The advantage America has is that we have a huge system and a very diverse system. So there are over four thousand universities and colleges in the United States, and what that tells us is there is still a lot of room to host international students."
“美国的优势在于拥有庞大多样化的教育体系，有超过4000所高校，报道表明我们还有接纳国际留学生的更大空间。”

Foreign students represent less than four percent of the total student population in American higher education. Ms. Blumenthal says this means there is still a lot of room for international students.
留学生在美国高校中学生总数的不到4%，布鲁门托说这意味着还有更多空间来接收留学生。